Mining & ResourcesCategory Archive

In yet another milestone, Rio Tinto has announced that its fleet of autonomous haul trucks last week moved their one-billionth tonne of both ore and waste material across five sites in the Pilbara. Last year, Rio Tinto’s haul trucks fitted with Autonomous Haulage System (AHS) technology moved roughly a quarter of the total material sources from

Rio Tinto has strengthened its presence in Mongolia with the establishment of a new office that will house its exploration team and the Mongolia Delivery Centre (MDC), the local branch of Rio Tinto’s Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) team.

Rio Tinto has released its fourth quarter production results which showed it finished the year in line with guidance across all major products. The company, which shipped a total of 330.1 million tonnes of iron ore from its Pilbara assets in 2017, has

Liberty House Group, an industrial and metals company founded by UK tycoon Sanjeev Gupta, has made a binding conditional offer of $500 million to acquire Rio Tinto’s Aluminium Dunkerque smelter in northern France. Liberty House, which is part of the GFG

The December 2017 Resources and Energy Quarterly (REQ) has found that Australia’s resources and energy export earnings increased by 1.2% to reach a record level of $52.5 billion in the September quarter of 2017. Minister for Resources and Northern Australia

Australian mineral exploration company Arafura Resources has received recommendation for approval from the Northern Territory Environment Protection Authority (EPA) to progress the development of a new rare earths mine in the NT. The Nolans Project, which is

Brisbane-based miner Batchfire Resources has been granted a mining lease for its recently acquired Callide coal mine in Central Queensland. The mine, which has been in operation since 1944, produces low sulphur, sub-bituminous thermal coal primarily for